10 o'clock in the evening, inside the safe house in Mihua Town.
Jiang Guling had already brought the prepared dinner to the low table in front of the sofa, but Zhu Fu Jingguang didn't eat it.
After taking a shower and changing out of his half-wet and half-dry clothes, he fell into a very bad state. He responded when Fangtani Rei called him, but once he stopped talking to him, he just sat there and screamed.
Don't say anything.
Jiang Guling looked at Fa Xiao's appearance and frowned tightly. He wanted to sit down and ask what happened, but his cell phone suddenly rang.
It was the call from the police liaison department, Yuya Kazami.
"..." Jianggu Ling glanced at the phone screen, then looked at Zhu Fu Jingguang, "I'll go to the backyard to answer the phone."
An hour ago, Angstra sent an email saying that he would be back soon. He would arrive at any time and he could not leave the safe house too far.
Zhu Fu Jingguang didn't speak, just nodded silently, Jiang Gu Ling took the phone and left. When he left, he grabbed the head of the little bear that was clinging to his calf, took it off his body, and threw it on the sofa.
The little bear raised its paws and rubbed its head. It looked left and right, staring at the various scenery around it for a while, but did not come closer, and flew away by flapping its wings.
Zhu Fu Jingguang was the only one left in the living room.
He was sitting on the soft sofa, but his whole body seemed to be leaning on the hard cement floor, his whole body was stiff and it was difficult to relax.
He thought again about what happened at the training ground.
…
8pm, training ground.
After rigorous training, the undercover police officer armed with the best weapon at his disposal stood on the round stage of the assessment project, facing the boy with black hair and red eyes in the image, and froze in place.
The boy was wearing pants that reached his knees, and Zhu Fu Jingguang could see the bruises on his calves after being exposed to violence. He raised his familiar yet unfamiliar face, with a pair of healthy and intact eyes.
The image was so lifelike, as if the soft and fragile seven-year-old child he had met once again reappeared in front of his eyes.
Zhu Fu Jingguang was completely motionless.
He saw Angstra when she was seven years old, not long before he lost his sister. He saw the child rummaging through the trash, crying to find a toy handcuff that his father had thrown away, and then being held by his sister's hand.
take away.
He didn't care about him at the time. Zhu Fu Jingguang, who wanted to be a policeman and wanted to help more people, completely didn't notice that a tragedy was about to happen around him... He was obviously so close to him.
"Let's do it."
"Go and shoot him and complete the task assigned to you by your boss. If you fail, many people will be disappointed with you... You don't want to be unable to complete the first step into the organization, right? Midorikawa Xin..."
The member codenamed Spiatus has a soft and gentle voice, like a father coaxing his child to do homework.
Hearing these words that seemed to have a different meaning, Zhu Fu Jingguang, who was already uneasy, felt his scalp numb instantly, and he turned around at a speed that almost broke his neck.
The man with black hair and red eyes was leaning on the railing beside the round platform. The railing was not high. As long as his waist, there was a silent darkness behind him.
He didn't have any protection on his body. Zhu Fu Jingguang could see that he didn't have a gun, and he showed an extremely relaxed posture... as if someone could push him lightly in front of him and he would fall backwards and die.
here.
Zhu Fu Jingguang suddenly remembered the way he used to practice sniping on this round platform on the Angst Palace - the way he sat on the railing with his feet off the ground, at this moment, completely overlapped with the man in front of him.
"Don't look at me, your target is there."
"..."
Zhu Fu Jingguang looked back and saw that the boy on the screen was still sitting on the small chair. He did not run around and escape. There were no disturbing factors around him. There was no adult standing beside him to help him.
Block the incoming fatal blow.
He will bear the malice and danger from the darkness alone - just like he did seven years ago.
The passage of time seemed to slow down, and Zhu Fu Jingguang felt that he could not hear any sound in his ears. At this moment, all kinds of messy, related or unrelated thoughts flooded into his brain.
What was the assessment like for Japanese whiskey seniors back then?
Why would the organization let him shoot seven-year-old Angstra?
Was the organization doing this to test his loyalty, or did they discover that he had met Angstra before?
Has he and Zero's investigation into Angstra's past been discovered?
Does Angstra know that the organization has set him as a sniper target during the assessment?
Angstra...if Angstra knew that she could kill his virtual image, what would she think of him in the future?
…
In front of him was a very easy target, but Zhu Fu Jingguang's hand holding the gun could not help but tremble slightly.
【I can always protect you.】
【I'm waiting for you to come back.】
... Angstra is still waiting for him to complete the assessment and return.
"Let's do it."
Spiatus repeated.
This gentle voice was like a catalyst. Zhu Fu Jingguang felt that his body was completely out of control at this moment. He could not control his body at all. Even though his soul was screaming at the top of his lungs to stop, his hands were still raised steadily.
He got up and pointed the gun at the boy's head in the video.
The boy gave him an unguarded smile as he looked into the scope.
Bang--
The innocent smile froze on his face, a burst of blood burst out from the boy's left eye, and bright red liquid slowly flowed down from under his injured left eye. His head tilted, and he fell from the chair to the ground.
The image began to disappear, and darkness poured in from all sides like a tide, completely swallowing the boy who fell to the ground.
——This is the first scene Zhu Fu Jingguang saw after he came back to his senses.
"…………"
"Good job."
Spiatus stood up from the railing and patted him kindly on the shoulder.
"Angstra, he will be happy for you."
He said this with a smile.
…
In the safe house, Zhu Fu Jingguang closed his eyes.
During the mission to track down XYZ Cocktail, Zhufu Jingguang was not injured during the whole process, nor did he kill anyone. The undercover agent from another criminal organization was killed by a bomb installed by Nishio, and he did not see his body.
But he is still guilty. From today, from the moment he decided to shoot the seven-year-old Angstra for the code name, his soul is stained with sin.
He ended the assessment, but was faced with another punishment that he didn't know when it would end.
…
After passing the assessment, the two walked down the stairs one after another.
Spiatus, who was walking behind, was very indifferent. Even when he stepped down the last step of the stairs, Zhu Fu Jingguang suddenly turned around and grabbed him by the collar. The expression on his face never changed. On the contrary, there was something on his left shoulder.
The cat's tail suddenly stood up.
Zhu Fu Jingguang's hand holding his collar trembled slightly. The undercover agent, who had always been gentle and calm, showed such an angry expression for the first time.
"Why should it be set to..." He moved his mouth but did not call out the code name, "Is this the leader's request?"
"It is indeed the boss's decision." Spiatus said in a gentle tone, "Please let me go, Midorikawa-kun. It doesn't matter if you attack me, but you can't scare my cat."
His voice was low and gentle, and his attitude was patient and polite. He didn't even take action directly, he just looked at him politely with his eyes and persuaded him to let go.
Zhu Fu Jingguang suddenly let go of his hand.
"Thank you." He also thanked him, "You can leave. Ireland will take you back to the safe house, and the boss will give you the code number on the way."
Spiatus hugged the cat, comforted it softly, and turned away, leaving Zhufu Jingguang standing there alone.
Zhu Fu Jingguang stood in a daze for a long time, and he didn't react until Ireland came over to call him.
Then he found that his hands were shaking and his back was already soaked with cold sweat - he was scared.
This was an indescribable fear, even beyond death. He could not accurately describe that feeling. When he looked into those crimson eyes, he seemed to be on the edge of a cliff, staring quietly at the abyss below.
Hold him.
——Even when he was hiding in a dark closet and listening to the outsider trying to coax him out with sweet words, he had never been so creepy.
…
"Su..."
"……Scotland?"
"Midori Chuan, what are you thinking about? Why are you ignoring me?"
The call from beside him finally brought Zhu Fu Jingguang back to his senses. He looked up and saw Angostela, who had returned from unknown time, standing next to him holding Qian Duoduo.
The fourteen-year-old boy had a smile on his face, and he looked at him with the same smile as the boy in the image.
His right eye was a warm and bright red, and there was a shocking scar on his left eye.
